[intro:] yeah grandmama told you i won’t let you down told you i won’t let this rap game change me, right?

[chorus:] when it comes to being true, at least true to me one thing i found,one thing i found oh no you’ll neva let me down, get up i get(down) get up i get(down) get up i get(down) get up i get(down) get up i get(down) get up i get(down)

[jay-z:] yo, yo first i sn*tched the street then i sn*tched the charts, first had they ear now i hav they’re heart, rappers came and went, i’ve been hear from the start, seen them put it together watch them take it apart, see the rovers roll up wit ribbons i’ve seen them re-poed, re-sold and re-driven so when i reload, he holds #1 position when u hot i’m hot and when your feet cold, mines is sizzelin it’s plain to see n*gg*’s can’t f*** wit me cuz ima be that n*gg* fo life this is not an image this is god given this is hard liven mixed wit crystal sipping it’s the most consistent hov give you the most hits you can fit inside a whole disc and n*gg* i’m home on these charts, y’all n*gg*z visitin it’s hov tradition, jeff gordan of rap i’m back to claim pole position, holla at ya boy

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[kanye west:] i get down for my grandfather who took my momma made her sit that seat where white folks ain’t wanna us to eat at the tender age of 6 she was arrested for the sit in with that in my blood i was born to be different now n*gg*s can’t make it to ballots to choose leadership but we can make it to jacob and to the dealership that’s why i hear new music and i just don’t be feeling it racism still alive they just be concealing it but i know they don’t want me in the d*mn club they even made me show id to get inside of sam’s club i did dirt and went to church to get my hands scrubbed swear i’ve been baptised at least 3 or 4 times but in the land where n*gg*’s praise yukons and getting paid it gon’ take a lot more than coupons to get us saved like it take a lot more than do-rags to get your waves noting sadder than that day my girl father past away so i promised to mr rany i’m gonna marry your daughter and u know i gotta thank u for they way that she was brought up and i know that u were smiling when u see that car i bought her and u sent tears from heaven when u seen my car get balled up but i can’t complaint what the accident did to my left eye cuz look what a accident did to left eye first aaliyah and now romeo must die i know a got angels watching me from the other side

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[j.ivy:] we are all here for a reason on a particular path you don’t need a curriculum to know that you are part of the math cats think i’m delirious, but i’m so d*mn serious that’s why i expose my soul to the globe, the world i’m trying to make it better for these little boys and girls i’m not just another individual, my spirit is a part of this that’s why i get spiritual, but i get my hymns from him so it’s not me, it’s he that’s lyrical i’m not a miracle, i’m a heaven-sent instrument my rhythmatic regimen navigates melodic notes for your soul and your mental that’s why i’m instrumental vibrations is what i’m into yeah, i need my loot by rent day but that is not what gives me the heart of kunte kinte i’m tryina give us “us free” like cinque i can’t stop, that’s why i’m hot determination, dedication, motivation i’m talking to you, my many inspirations when i say i can’t, let you or self down if i were of the highest cliff, on the highest riff and you slipped off the side and clinched on to your life in my grip i would never, ever let you down and when these words are found let it been known that god’s penmanship has been signed with a language called love that’s why my breath is felt by the deaf and why my words are heard and confined to the ears of the blind i, too, dream in color and in rhyme so i guess i’m one of a kind in a full house cuz whenever i open my heart, my soul, or my mouth a touch of god reigns out

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[jay-z (kanye west)] who else you know been hot this long, (oh ya, you know we ain’t finished) started from nothing but he got this strong, (the roc is in the building) built the roc from a pebble, pedalled rock before i met you, pedalled bikes, got my nephews pedal bikes because they special, let you tell that man i’m falling, well somebody must’ve caught him, cause every fourth quarter, i like to mike jordan ’em, number one alb*ms, what i got like four of dem, more of dem on the way, the eight wonder on the way, clear the way, i’m here to stay, y’all can save the chitter chat, this and that, this and jay, dissin’ jay ‘ill get you mased, when i start spitting them lyrics, n*gg*s get very religious, six hail maries, please father forgive us, young, the archbishop, the pope john paul of y’all n*gg*s, the way y’all all follow jigga, hov’s a living legend and i tell you why, everybody wanna be hov and hov still alive.